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<jats:p>Opportunities for LOTE (Languages Other Than English) speakers to engage with their target language are limited, making it challenging to sustain motivation. The aim of this study is to develop and validate a scale for measuring motivational regulatory strategies among Japanese-language learners and investigate their relationship with motivational factors. This research specifically focuses on Indonesian learners of Japanese who have a non-Kanji (Chinese characters) background and are studying Japanese as a foreign language. The motivational regulatory strategies scale comprises six factors and has demonstrated adequate internal consistency and factor structure. The findings indicate a positive correlation between integrative motivation and these six strategies, suggesting that learners’ integrative motivation may promote the adoption of these strategies. Furthermore, this study emphasizes the significance of the opportunity control strategy, where learners actively seek chances to expose themselves to their target language. Future research is recommended to implement the developed scale in educational settings. Conducting surveys that encompass learners from diverse cultural backgrounds and embarking on longitudinal studies should also be considered.</jats:p>

The main objective of the present research is to develop questionnaire items in Japanese language learning for Indonesian university students. A total of 157 university students participated in the study and completed the questionnaire online. First, an exploratory factor analysis was conducted in order to investigate a structure of motivational factors, which extracted a six-factor structure. Confirmatory factor analysis was then conducted through structural equation modeling and the validity of the six-factor model was examined. The Cronbach alpha coefficients were also calculated. The results of the two factor analyses provided a satisfactory reliability and validation of the questionnaire. Consequently, the extracted six-factor motivational structure was certified as an appropriate questionnaire battery to assess Japanese language learning motivation in Indonesia university students.